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A05759	A summons to iudgement. Or a sermon appointed for the Crosse, but deliuered vpon occasion in the cathedrall church of S. Paul London the 6. day of Iune, 1613. beeing the first Sunday of Midsommer Terme. By Thomas Baughe, student of Christ-Church in Oxford.	Baughe, Thomas, b. 1577 or 8.	1614 (1614)	STC 1594; ESTC S101085	31,180	66

descension for hee descended and came as it were backe from God to man He passed Libra in his Passion where his mercie and his merits ouer-wayed our misery and sinne And not to be although I might bee curious in all hee passed Leo in his resurrection when hee rose strong as a Lyon and ouercame the graue death and hell and that hellish roaring and deuouring Lyon Now then that Christ hath passed all these signes it is a signe that the world and all must passe away Alas then why doe some and some Christian men so liue as if there were no iudgement after this life Nay more as if they were Aduocates and Orators and Sophisters for the Diuell why doe they dispute against the iudgement of our God For say some why should God iudge man after his death since hee hath his iudgement at his death I answere S. August that in death wee haue a particular iudgement but God will also haue a generall Secondly S. Bern. in death we haue the iudgement of the Soule but God will iudge both Body and Soule Lastly S. Hiero. in death wee haue a secret doome but God will haue an open assise a publike Sessions and a manifest iudgement O then put not farre from you the euill day but so liue as if you were to make your personall appearance before your God this present day For be you sure if any heare mee this day and regard not in his heart the iudgment day that euen this Text these words this Sermon of iudgement will rise vp against them in the day of iudgement So I come to my fourth obseruation the end of Christs comming it is to iudgement 4 And here I note these things First the multiplicitie of iudgement Secondly the qualitie of Gods iudgement Thirdly the prodromi and fore-runners of the iudgement Lastly the followers and attendants on this iudgement There is a manifold and various iudgement Bonauen For as Bonauenture notes their is in God iudicium praescienti● a iudgement for those sinnes that were but intended Secondly there is iudicium causae a iudgment for the cause whence they sprang and the end wherevnto they tended Thirdly there is iudicium operationis a iudgement for euerie euill act committed And lastly iudicium approbationis a iudgement of euery iust punishment inflicted There is a iudgement of retribution for the good a iudgement of reprobation for the euill and a iudgement of discussion both for good and euill There hath beene already a iudgement of water S. Peter which did wash away sinners but not sinne and there shall bee a iudgement of fire which shall burne away both sinne and sinners Secondly I noted the qualitie of Gods iudgement and first it is full of Maiestie for the King of heauen shall come cum militia caelesti with all the armie troupe and traine of heauen He shall send forth as it were his Herald and Beedle and call a Conuocation of Angels and Saints heauen and earth to cull and seuer and marke out his sheepe from the goates Posuit thronum God is come as it were to the Kings Bench of his iustice hee hath opened a booke and another booke as it is in the Reuelation Reuel to wit the booke scientiae diuinae of diuine knowledge and science and a booke humana conscientiae of mans guilty and accusing conscience O wretched man saith a good Father tanta contra te fit praeparatio doth God so prepare so muster vp his men for thy iudgement and wilt thou either not feele thy imminent iudgement or if thou feele it not amend thy life that thou maiest escape in that fierie triall and fierce iudgement If our gracious King whom the King of Kings set for euer as a signet vppon his right hand should take his Peeres and Nobles Bishops and Iudges to iudge a rebell or a malefactor how would the countenance of that Traitor fall his tongue faulter his bodie tremble and his heart and spirit euen thawe and melt away And yet good God such is our frailtie that though we be traitors to our iudge our Sauior and our own soules yet we more awe feare a temporall then an eternall iudgement and are more daunted with him that can but kill the bodie and that for a time then with him that can destroy both bodie and soule and that for euer Secondly there is mercie in this iudgement For Christ will iudge vs not by the letter and rigor of the Law but as it were in a Court of Conscience Et Conscientia qualis sententia talis and our verdict shall bee giuen in according and agreeing with the Conscience wee haue within Neither will our mercifull iudge proceed against vs without witnesse nay not without a thousand witnesses and those no forraine aliene or strange witnesses but such as are in our owne bosome such as are more inward with vs then that soule which is within vs For vnlesse our conscience which is as the soule of the soule doe like another Cerberus barke within vs we shall escape that true Cerberus and dog of hell Besides our mercifull iudge will not condemne vs for one accuser for except Moses and the Law accuse vs S. Iohn as Saint Iohn hath it except Singuli errores our particular and singular errors single vs out and become singuli accusatores ech of them accusers of vs nay more except man himselfe doe condemne himselfe Christ who is God and Man will not condemne Nay more except Sin and Satan come with plaine direct and vnauoidable euidence against vs it shall yet maugre all their malice goe well with vs. And Lord how will that accuser of his brethren in that day accuse vs S. August S. Augustine brings him in thus inditing man Iuste iudex marke he doth not say Bone Deus good God to mooue clemencie and mercie but iust iudge to whet and sharpen him on to rigor and seueritie and the bill of his enditement runnes thus Indeed iust iudge these sinners were thine per gratiam by thy grace to them committed but they are become mine per culpam by that sin which they committed They were thine per misericordiam in thy mercie but they are become mine through their own misery They were thine per passionem through thy crosse and passion but they are become mine per persuasionem by my slie subtle perswasion They were thine creatione in the creation but they are become mine destructione since they haue brought themselues to their destruction They haue forsaken Sacramenta tua thy Sacraments haue followed blandimenta mea my allurements and therefore iust iudge since they belong to mee let them bee condemned with me Alas good Christians being thus arraigned at the barr of Gods iustice by whom will you bee tried By your God Why he must be iust by a Iurie of Angels and Saints why they cannot quit you For it is God that condemnes and who can iustifie by your owne hearts

Iudicat homo hominem in opere sed deus in corde that though God onely iudge the heart yet man may iudge of the fact of man And so I come to my third part will come when God shall come In God rising for so reades the vulgate and comming for so hath the English vnto iudgement I obserue two things First the certaintie then the vicinitie of the iudgement It is not said Deus venit God doth or hath come but Deus veniet God will come and yet according to the rule of the Schoole Futurum in Deo aeque certum quam aut praesens aut praeteritum that which is to come in God is as sure as if it were either present or past And God wil come to iudgement both for the glorie of God and of Man and of Christ both God and Man First for the glorie of God for God hath promised a iudgement and all the promises of God are yea and Amen The Prophets and the Apostles both the Law and the Gospell beare witnes of a iudgement I wil contend with thee in iudgement saith God in Ieremie Ier. The Nations shall see my iudgement Ezek. saith God in Ezekiel I will sit and iudge all people Ioel. saith God in Ioel. In Saint Paul wee reade Statutum est Death is appointed and after it commeth the iudgement And in Saint Peter wee finde a Iudicaturus est S. Pet. that as if God had put on his robes and were set on his iudgment seate hee is now ready to iudge the quicke and dead God promised a floud and it came Et qui verus diluu●o cur non iudicio hee that performed in the particular shall he not also performe in a generall iudgement In Philosophie posito vno contrariorum if we grant one contrarie the other will follow but wee haue had experience of Gods mercie which is opposite to iudgement and shall wee not also haue a triall and a iudgement GOD hath shewed iustice in Heauen on rebellious Angels and will hee not shew iustice on men if they rebell vpon earth Secondly there must be a iudgement for the good of man for here the holiest and most heauenly men be in most heauiness Hic optimi pessime agunt here the righteous man hath most wrong and therefore God will iudge and do him right Here Iezabel sits brauing in a window while Ieremie lies sticking in the mudd Here Diues sits in his pallace S. Luke clothed richly faring daintily while Lazarus lies at his gate naked and hungry Here Herod wil please his Herodias though it be with the head of Iohn the Baptist Nonne visitabit shall not God visite and come to iudgement for these things Here the condition of the godly Christian is much like to the state of Christ his maister nec viuus domum nec mortuus sepulcrum habet they haue scarse a house wherein to liue and such hath been the Popish furie their bones haue not had rest after their death while they liued they found exilium equuleum banishment and the racke and being dead the wicked did saeuire in manes not let them rest when they were at rest Euseb Much like to the storie in Eusebius where they were not content to burne the bodies of the Saints but they cast there ashes vppon the water with this obloquie colligat Deus Reuel let the Lord gather them if hee will haue them But O LORD holy and true how long how long the bloud of thy Saints is shed round about this round world and they are cut in peeces euen as men cut and hew wood and wilt thou not yet come to be auenged on such a people as this Yes saith the Psalme Psal the Lord will come and not keepe silence and as it is in another Psalme Doubtlesse there is a God that will iudge the earth Psal And as in a balance or a scale that which is lightest mounteth highest so those that were of light or no esteeme in the world shall then be taken vp vnto the highest Gemunt boni though the godly mourne here like a Doue yet fruentur summo bono then they shall be comforted by that Spirit who appeared in the likenes of a Doue Though the good haue pressuram in terrâ griefe and oppression vpon earth yet they shall finde vsuram in coelo interest and increase of glorie in the Kingdome of heauen Lastly as there must be a iudgement for the glorie of God and good of man so it must also bee for the honour of Christ Iesus God and Man For the world did not beleeue Christ to bee the Messias the Iew held him but a meere and miserable man the Gentiles derided him as a crucified God and therefore will hee call heauen and earth and come and iudge his people and hee will come in such power and maiestie that the whole world shall confesse him a Messias that the Iew shall acknowledge him a God and that both Iew and Gentile shall feare and grieue to see him so highly glorified whom they basely slew and crucified Secondly I obserued the neerenes and vicinitie of the iudgement It is not said in the Apostles Creede veniet Symbo Aposto sea venturus est iudicare hee will come but hee is at hand he hath as it were set forth and is on his way comming to iudgement Non instat iudiciam sed ferè extat the day of iudgement is not so much future and to come as it is already present and in sight Iudex adianuam now is the iudge riding his circuite now hath hee sent forth his summons now hath hee put on his robe now is he set vpon his throne now is thy inditement reading now is thy cause pleading and now euen now the sentence of thy eternall life or death may bee passing witnes that of the Apostle Nunc est iudicium hee doth not say nunc erit now the iudgement shall bee as if it were comming but nunc est now is the iudgement of this world as if this moment this instant and present now were allotted for the iudgement The world that great man hath the throwes and panges of death now seazing on him And as man the little world when hee hath liued many yeares draweth then neere vnto his end so the world that hath liued now almost six thousand yeares must needes consume and haue an end In the time of the Apostles the Kingdome of God was at hand and now after so long a time as from the Apostles is it yet farre off When the Sunne hath passed the twelue signes Malac. wee know then the yeare ends Now Christ our Sunne hath passed through these signes and therefore the yeare of the world must haue an end Christ in his birth passed through Virgo for hee was borne of a pure and blessed Virgin Inchino He passed Gemini in his incarnation for there was both a Diuine and humane Nature Hee passed Cancer in his